Re: Eliminating "changed in Emacs outside of Customize"

From:

Lennart Borgman

Subject:

Re: Eliminating "changed in Emacs outside of Customize"

Date:

Thu, 3 Feb 2005 20:59:13 +0100

----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan Monnier" <address@hidden>
> I think it'd be useful to add a warning/prompt when saving, along the
lines
> of "set outside customize: saving may not work". With such a warning, we
> could drop the "changed outside customize" state (well: keep it
internally,
> of course, but not show it to the user) and still know that users won't be
> surprised when things don't work.
Would not this mean that you would get less overview and that you would
often not get any warning until you tried to save or set that particular
option?